Demolition Time

Have always enjoyed watching buildings being demolished, this link is to a clip of a US football stadium coming down and has further links to other clips. These examples are done using explosives which is a highly skilled art while also being expensive.

Fred Dibnah was a Lancastrian steeplejack who became a television personality in the late seventies after appearing on some BBC documentaries. His method of demolishing factory chimneys was a great deal cheaper while also requiring skill, he would install wooden props to support the structure on one side while removing the bricks from the base.

Then a mixture of old tyres and wood was placed on that side and a fire was lit, after the props were consumed the chimney would fall having vented smoke for the last time. Here is a clip of his 90th and final chimney demolition.